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- the present invention relates to GMPLS signaling and particularly to configuring Ethernet capable switches in order to configure Ethernet switched paths.
- Ethernet switches are growing in capability. As a consequence the role of Ethernet is rapidly expanding in networks that were the domain of other technologies such as SONET/SDH TDM and ATM. The question of how Ethernet will evolve and what capabilities it can offer in these areas is still under development.
- Ethernet as specified today is a system. How spanning tree, data plane flooding and MAC learning combine to populate forwarding tables and produce resilient any-to-any behavior in a bridged network is well understood. What is less obvious is that the resulting behavior is purely a consequence of this particular combination of functions combined with what the underlying hardware can do, and that by simply disabling some Ethernet functionality, it is possible to employ alternative control planes and obtain different forwarding behaviors.
- Ethernet switches may perform PBT MAC forwarding on the basis of a statically configured VID/MAC tuple. This means the forwarding hardware performs a full 60 bit lookup (VID(12)+MAC DA (48)) only requiring uniqueness of the full 60 bits for forwarding to resolve correctly.
- GMPLS Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching
- the common control plane promises to simplify network operation and management by automating end-to-end provisioning of connections, managing network resources, and providing the level of QoS that is expected in the new, sophisticated applications.
- a method, system and node for controlling Ethernet provider backbone transport (PBT) paths utilizing Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) signaling protocol are provided.
- PBT provides a defined path through a network between edge nodes. The path is identified by a combination of a VID and destination MAC address in a unique VID/MAC tuple.
- the VID/MAC tuple is installed in forwarding tables of intermediary nodes so that any packets between the edges nodes traverse by the defined path through the network.
- GMPLS Utilizing GMPLS enables the PBT path to be established through signaling rather than by individual configuration of each node.
- a path calculation must be performed from the originator node to the terminator node. The calculation may be performed based upon the network topology at the originator node or done centrally if required.
- the originating node sends a GMPLS label object with an offered VID/MAC to PBT identify the path to the terminator.
- the terminating node then offers a VID/MAC tuple in response for the path using a GMPLS label object.
- the nodes can select the VID from a range of allocated PBT VIDs. While a VID in the allocated range is not unique on an Ethernet sub-network basis, the VID/MAC DA tuple is.
- the intermediary nodes forward the response from the terminating node to the originator, the appropriate forwarding labels are then installed in the forwarding tables of each intermediary node utilizing the associated VID/MAC tuples to identify the path between edge nodes. Any future traffic between the edge nodes are identified by the VID/MAC tuple and forwarded by the defined path.
- GMPLS label objects from the originating node to the terminator node can utilize a UPSTREAM_LABEL object to send the VID/MAC, while the terminator may use GENERALIZED_LABEL object in a RESV message to respond with a VID/MAC.
- the intermediary nodes install forwarding entries from the objects based upon the VID/MAC so that future traffic will transit by the appropriate path.
- the unique combination of the VID/MAC ensures consistent forwarding of traffic through the network and the use of GMPLS enables end to end configuration of paths using a common control plane.
- an aspect of the present subject matter provides a method of utilizing Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) to control Ethernet provider backbone transport (PBT) paths, the method comprising the steps of determining paths from a originating edge node to a terminating edge node through a plurality of intermediary nodes; sending, from the originating node to the terminating node, a first offered GMPLS label for identifying the path, the GMPLS labels containing a backbone virtual-LAN identifier and a media-access-control (MAC) in a first VID/MAC tuple; installing the first VID/MAC tuple in forwarding tables at each intermediary bridge node from the originating node to the terminating node.
- GMPLS Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching
- PBT Ethernet provider backbone transport
- a further aspect of the present subject matter provides an Ethernet network, utilizing Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) for establishing provider backbone transport (PBT) paths, the network comprising an originating edge node; a terminating edge node; a plurality of intermediary bridge nodes forming a mesh between the originating and terminating edge nodes; and wherein a path is defined between the originating edge node and a terminating edge node by a backbone virtual-LAN identifier and a media-access-control (MAC) of the respective destination nodes forming a VID/MAC tuple and each of the intermediary nodes receives label information from the GMPLS label containing the VID/MAC tuple for populating forwarding tables to route data between the originating edge node and the terminating edge node by the defined path.
- GMPLS Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching
- PBT provider backbone transport
- Yet another aspect of the present subject matter provides an Ethernet bridging node in a mesh network, the node implementing the step of receiving at the bridging node an offered Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) label from an edge node, the GMPLS label identifying a provider backbone transport (PBT) path through the mesh network between edge nodes, the GMPLS labels containing a backbone virtual-LAN identifier (VID) and a media-access-control (MAC) address associated with the edge node in a VID/MAC tuple; installing the VID/MAC tuple from the GMPLS label in a forwarding table of the bridging node, the VID/MAC tuple for identifying an egress port of the node associated with the PBT path, wherein packets received at an ingress port of the bridging node are forwarded to the egress port of the bridging node based on VID/MAC tuples in the packets; and forwarding GMPLS label
- FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of 802.1 MAC/VLAN hierarchy
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a link discovery hierarchy
- FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of Ethernet/GMPLS addressing and label space
- FIG. 4 is a method diagram for GMPLS control of Ethernet
- FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a PBT overlay in a GMPLS network.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of a PBT overlay in a GMPLS network showing a plurality of PBT paths.
- Embodiments of the present invention are described below, by way of example only, with reference to FIGS. 1-6 .
- VID Backbone VLAN ID
- B-VLAN Backbone MAC
- PBB Provider Backbone Bridge
- PBT Provider Backbone Transport
- Ethernet consists of a very simple and reliable data plane that has been optimized and mass produced.
- Customer bridges 102 at the edge of the network define a C-MAC and C-VID for routing traffic entering the provider network as defined by 802.1Q.
- Provider bridges 104 can then add a S-VID to traffic within the provider network for routing as per 802.1ad.
- the S-VID is added at the ingress bridge and removed at the egress bridge.
- the provider backbone bridges 106 add a MAC and VID unique to the PBB network as per 802.1ah for routing through the backbone network.
- the MAC and VID can then be used as a VID/MAC tuple for PBT path configuration.
- the 802.1 hierarchy and the addition of PBT ensures that data can be routed effectively between networks.
- PBT redefines the semantics of using the constituent elements to get complete route freedom for each 60 bit entry so long as the overall requirement for global uniqueness is maintained.
- a PBT design decision was to preserve the global uniqueness and semantics of MAC addresses as interface names, but redefining the semantics associated with administration and use of VLAN values.
- the VLAN space is partitioned and a range of VIDs (say ‘n’ VIDs) allocated as only significant when combined with a destination MAC address.
- VID As an individual instance identifier for one of a maximum of ‘n’ point-to-point (P2P) connections or multipoint-to-point (MP2P) multiplexed connections (subsequently termed “shared forwarding” to distinguish from simple merges) terminating at the associated destination MAC address.
- P2P point-to-point
- MP2P multipoint-to-point
- shared forwarding to distinguish from simple merges
- a VID in the allocated range is not unique on an Ethernet sub-network basis
- the VID/MAC DA tuple is, and procedures can be designed to delegate administration of the allocated VID range to the node/interface identified by the DA MAC.
- PBT can be manipulated quite simply by a management system, and many of the requisite functions already exist to do so, it is considered advantageous to also specify a distributed means in the form of a signaling system to configure PBT forwarding in a GMPLS environment.
- One simple mode of path creation is by configuration. Node by node a path can be created by simple configuration or by a set of commands originating from a management station.
- One improvement to node by node configuration is to look at single ended provisioning and signaling.
- the signaling protocol GMPLS already contains many requisite features and may be adapted to signal PBT path setup with protocol and semantic modifications.
- Link discovery is one of the foundations of GMPLS. It is also a capability that has been specified for Ethernet in IEEE 802.1ab standard entitled “Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery”. All link discovery is optional but the benefits of running link discovery in large systems are significant. 802.1ab could be run with an extension to feed information into a Link Management Protocol (LMP) based discovery.
- LMP Link Management Protocol
- the LMP based discovery would allow for a complete functional LMP for the purpose of GMPLS topology discovery.
- LMP requires an IP control plane (as does GMPLS).
- 802.1ab does not have the ability to carry all of the LMP messages. So the LMP implementation would be compatible with 802.1ab but add the extensions for LMP discovery as shown in FIG. 2 .
- Each node 210 and 220 may have a LMP module 202 which provides connectivity at the IP layer 208 , if utilized as other protocols may be used.
- the LMP also implements 802.1ab 204 connectivity discovery as a sub-process which operates over the Ethernet layer 206 .
- IP control plane consisting of and Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) with Traffic Engineering (TE) extension needs to be established.
- IGP Interior Gateway Protocol
- TE Traffic Engineering
- the IP control plane can be provided as a separate independent network or integrated with the Ethernet switches. If it is a separate network, it may be provided as a Layer 2 connected VLAN where the Ethernet switches are connection via a bridged network or HUB. It may also be provided by a network that provides IP connectivity where a IP VPN provides the IP connectivity.
- IP control plane is integrated with the switches it may be provided by a bridged VLAN that uses the data bearing channels of the network for adjacent nodes. This ties the fate of PBT service and the IP control plane links, however the same Ethernet hardware is already being shared.
- GMPLS signaling is the well suited to the set up of PBT switched paths.
- GMPLS signaling uses link identifiers in the form of IP addresses either numbered or unnumbered. If LMP is used the creation of these addresses can be automated. If LMP is not used there is an additional provisioning requirement to add GMPLS link identifiers. For large implementations LMP would be beneficial. As mentioned earlier the primary benefit of signaling is the control of a path from an endpoint. GMPLS can be used to create bidirectional or unidirectional paths, bi-directional paths being the preferred mode of operation for numerous reasons (OAM consistency etc.).
- a new label signaling object is defined that contains the VID/MAC tuple, which is 60 bits.
- a function administers the VIDs associated with the initiating and terminating MACs respectively.
- the initiator of the PATH message uses GMPLS signaling procedures such as:
- a VID is allocated in the PBT range delegated to PBT operation for the termination MAC to provide a label to be used for the path to the termination and the VID/MAC tuple is passed in the GENERALIZED_LABEL object in the RESV message.
- VID/MAC tuples extracted from the UPSTREAM_LABEL and GENERALIZED LABEL objects are installed in the forwarding table at each hop.
- Path computation in GMPLS generates explicit route objects (EROs) that can be used directly by GMPLS signaling.
- ERO explicit route object
- Path computation can be done on a centralized database or done locally if required.
- PBT routing can be implemented with no modifications (node and interface identification can be used as specified), or may employ centralized concepts such as the path computation element. However it is possible to design switches without routing that could proxy their routing to other larger switches. From the routing perspective there would be little difference in the routing database but the small switches would not have to perform routing operations.
- the information for the proxied routing might be configured or it might be data filled by an automated procedure.
- LMP is optional as mentioned earlier.
- the primary benefit of LMP over 802.1ab is LMP's capability for optimizing routing information for the purpose of link bundling on large switches.
- LMP has the capability to compress the information required to represent a large number of parallel resources automatically.
- the GMPLS node address/logical port is the logical signaling identifier for the control plane via which Ethernet layer label bindings are solicited as shown in FIG. 3 .
- a provider bridge To create a point-to-point path between the PBT transit switch 302 , a provider bridge, to the PBT edge switch 304 , a provider backbone bridge, an association must be made between the ingress and egress nodes defined by the VID/MAC Ethernet label.
- the specific ports 310 of the GMPLS switch address on a Provider network node are identified by a MAC, a 32 bit IPv4 node address, a 128 bit IPv6 address plus 32 bit port Identifier, and one (or more) mnemonic string identifiers based on the port index and MAC.
- the actual PBT label distributed via signaling and instantiated in the switch forwarding tables contains the egress interface name (MAC) of the port on the egress PBB. Depending on how the service is defined and set up, one or more of these labels may be used for actual setup.
- a terminating node may offer any 60 bit label value that can be guaranteed to be unique, the convention of using MAC addresses to name specific ports is retained, an Ethernet port name being common to both PBT and bridging modes of operation.
- a port index and a MAC address of a port on the node may be effectively interchangeable for signaling purposes although incorrect information can result in an incorrect association between a GMPLS node address and the set of MAC named interfaces local to that node.
- GMPLS uses identifiers in the form of 32 bit number which are in the IP address notation but these are not IP addresses.
- An IP routing control plane for the propagation of TE information may be supported.
- the provider MAC addresses are exchanged by the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) and by LMP if supported. Actual label assignment is performed by the signaling initiator and terminator. This multiple naming convention leaves the issue of resolving the set given one of the port identifiers. On a particular node, mapping is relatively straight forward. The preferred solution to this is to use the GMPLS IP node address for signaling resolution.
- the problem of setting up a path is reduced to figuring out what node supports a MAC address and then finding the corresponding GMPLS IP node address and performing all signaling and routing with respect to the GMPLS node address.
- provisioning auto discovery protocols that carry MAC address (e.g. 802.1ab); augmenting routing TE with MAC addresses and name servers with identifier/address registration.
- the data plane for PBT has three key fields, VID, MAC DA and MAC SA.
- a connection instance is uniquely identified by the MAC DA, VID and MAC SA for the purpose of the provider network terminations.
- the VID and MAC DA tuple identifies the forwarding multiplex at transit switches and a simple degenerate form of the multiplex is P2P (only one MAC SA/VID/MAC DA connection uses the VID/MAC DA tuple). This results in unique labels end to end and no merging or multiplexing of tunnels.
- the data streams may merge but the forwarding entries are unique allowing the connection to be de-multiplexed downstream.
- the VID/MAC DA can be considered to be a shared forwarding identifier for a multiplex consisting of some number of P2P connections each of which is distinctly identified by the concatenation of the MAC SA with the VID/MAC DA tuple.
- FIG. 4 is a method flow of configuring Ethernet PBT paths by GMPLS.
- the paths between two edge nodes is computed at step 402 .
- the path computation may be done centrally or at each node.
- a PATH request in a GMPLS label such as the UPSTREAM_LABEL object and value is passed unmodified between an originator node to a terminator node at step 404 through the intermediary or transit nodes identifying a VID/MAC to identify the path.
- a VID is allocated in the PBT range delegated to PBT operation for the MAC DA and the VID/MAC tuple is passed in the GENERALIZED_LABEL in the RESV message in the reverse direction at step 406 .
- the intermediary nodes install the appropriate VID/MAC DA tuples in the forwarding table at each hop at step 408 .
- a network 502 contains multiple interconnected nodes.
- a connection between an edge node 504 to another edge node 506 can be established by configuring intermediary bridge nodes.
- the originating or source node, in this example 504 offers VID/MAC tuple using the node 504 SA in the GMPLS UPSTREAM label object contained is a PATH setup transaction to intermediate node 508 .
- the signaling continues to propagate along the path to terminating or destination node 506 . Terminating node 506 selects a VID/MAC tuple label and offers it in a label object contained in a RESV transaction back along the path towards the originating node 504 .
- the intermediate nodes 508 , 510 , 512 , and 514 on observing both the outgoing PATH request and RESV response install the labels corresponding to both directions of the path in their forwarding tables.
- alternative GMPLS messages may be utilized to pass VID/MAC labels between edge nodes other than those specified.
- the VID/MAC tuples offered by the originating and terminating nodes may specify the MAC SA or MAC DA depending on the format and direction of the messaging.
- a PBT path 530 is established in both directions between edge nodes 505 and 506 .
- the VID used for each direction may be the same VID for consistency but PBT does not preclude the use of another VID. It should be noted that the procedures are as for GMPLS as specified, with the proviso that the PBT “labels” are unmodified in each direction as signaling is relayed across the intermediate nodes.
- multiple paths may be established between edge nodes 504 and 506 but utilizing a different VID as defined by PBT.
- a secondary path 531 utilizing node 516 , 518 , 520 and 522 may be created by forwarding a different unique VID/MAC.
- the separate paths could also be created and used independently in the forward and reverse direction resulting in path asymmetry.
- VLAN tagged Ethernet packets include priority marking. This means that the queuing discipline applied is selectable on a per flow basis and is decoupled from the actual steering of the packet at any given node. This greatly simplifies the task of setting up paths with a shared forwarding entry, as there are no specific QoS constraints directly associated with the VID/MAC tuple.
- GMPLS signaled paths can have similar properties to MPLS traffic engineered E-LSPs. What this means is that multiple Ethernet switched paths to a destination may be considered functionally equivalent. This is a useful property when considering setup of shared forwarding Ethernet switched paths. A terminating node will frequently have more than one suitable candidate path with which new path requests may be multiplexed on the data plane (common VID/DA, unique SA).
- the originating node may select the optimal (by whatever criteria) existing shared forwarding multiplex for the new destination to merge with and offer its own VID/MAC DA tuple for itself as a destination. This is identified via use of the UPSTREAM_LABEL object.
- the terminating node performs a selection process whereby the ERO is compared to the existing set of multiplexes and the VID/MAC tuple selected for offering identifying what the terminating node considered to be the optimal tree for the originating node to join.
- the intermediate nodes simply note the addition of an endpoint “owner” to the shared portion of the multiplexes identified by the ERO and VID/MAC tuples, and the addition of the new “leaves” to the each multiplex as the connectivity is extended to the new end points.
- the originating node will not have knowledge of the set of shared forwarding path rooted on the destination node.
- Use of a Path Computation Server or other planning style of tool with more complete knowledge of the network configuration may wish to impose pre-selection of the a more optimal shared forwarding multiplexes to use for both directions.
- the originating node uses the SUGGESTED_LABEL and UPSTREAM_LABEL objects to indicate complete selection of the shared forwarding multiplexes at both ends. This may also result in the establishment of a new VID/MAC DA path as the SUGGESTED_LABEL object may legitimately refer to a path that does not yet exist.
- Intermediate nodes processing signaling transactions for shared forwarding frequently will already have forwarding entries corresponding to the MAC/VID tuple in the signaling exchange. They may contribute to the robustness of the procedure by notifying peers of signaling exceptions, such as when signaling exchange would incorrectly modify the connectivity of an existing path.
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